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There was a short period of time where California required manufacturers to produce EVs. No one was ready for it so they produced bare minimums to stay in compliance.
There are very few of these still on the road. Ford likes to act like the MachE and Lightning are their first EVs, but they had Fusions, Focuses, and Rangers in EV platforms in that era.
Ah, that sounds somewhat familiar. I'd never heard those cars referred to as "compliance cars", though.